On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Mats Palmgren <m...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 01/12/2015 07:59 PM, Ben Peters wrote: >> >> Multiple selection is an important feature in the future. > > > Indeed, there are many important use cases for it. > > Here are some use cases that are implemented using multi-range selections > in Gecko today: > * visual selection of bidirectional text > * selecting table columns > * selecting multiple fragments of arbitrary content (just hold CTRL) > * selection with disjoint unselected islands due to CSS user-select:none > * mapping spell-checking errors > * highlighting matched words for "Find in Page" > etc
If we ever want to make selection of text in pages using Flexbox or Grid make sense, we'll need multiple selections, too. The assumption that you can accurately capture a visually-contiguous block of content with two DOM endpoints is rapidly becoming untenable. ~TJ
